the.com/cable
a wire that quietly runs the world and tangles in your pocket out of spite
means a thick bundle of wires or fibers used to carry electricity, signals, or mechanical force — or the messages once sent through them.
from From the Latin 'capulum,' a rope or halter for catching cattle, tied to 'capere,' to seize or grasp. It traveled through Old North French 'cable' into English first as a heavy maritime rope — the sort that anchored ships. When the telegraph and the great transoceanic wires arrived, the word was simply borrowed for the thick lines laid across the seabed, and 'to cable someone' came to mean sending word through them.
- ocean floor
- Undersea cables carry over 95% of global internet traffic
- deep span
- Some cables stretch over 12,000 miles across oceans
- shark bites
- Sharks have actually attacked undersea fiber cables
- first link
- 1858 transatlantic cable worked for only weeks
- tension limit
- Cable bridges hold up roadways with steel wire bundles
transatlantic telegraph cable — first successful submarine telegraph connecting ireland to newfoundland in 1858
olympic underground cable car — aerial tramway in seattle serving pike place market since 1962